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Buzzark
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July 5, 2016
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Identifying corporate machines on a VPN

  • July 5, 2016
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I am fairly new to Fortigates having previously mostly used Cisco ASA/Sonicwall/Checkpoint, I like what I've seen so far but am struggling to find ways of authenticating or identifying a machine on a VPN.

 

I'm expecting to use the client and full tunnel, ideally over SSL.

 

What I cannot find in the manuals or cookbooks is the ability to authenticate a connecting machine as well as a user.  e.g. if I did this on a Cisco ASA I would have the choice or combination of several methods;

Machine certificate deployed through AD, a registry key, a file name or text file content, verified domain membership, verified AD computer group membership, certain software, firewall or AV version in place and iirc, some others.

 

I haven't worked in a company yet that allows (or wanted) non-corporate machines to connect to the corporate VPN so this is a fairly common requirement.

 

Can somebody point me to the right documentation?

Thanks.

2 replies

ede_pfau
SuperUser
SuperUser
July 5, 2016

In FortiClient, you can check the connecting machine's registry for a unique key. For this, get the FortiClientTools and with that create a custom XML config file.

In the registry, you'll find the serial somewhere. But to check that against a list on the FGT side isn't easy. It would be easier to check domain membership.

Buzzark
BuzzarkAuthor
New Member
July 6, 2016

Thanks, good to hear there are some options.  I'll have a look at the FortiClient manual then, see what's available.

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